North Texas mayors kick off The North Texas Food Bank’s 2023 peanut butter drive Mayors from 12 cities across North Texas today (Tuesday, Aug.
29) kicked off the race to collect peanut butter for the North Texas Food Bank as part of Hunger Action Month. This is the 10th Annual Spread the Hope Peanut Butter Drive, and it runs throughout September with a goal of collecting 400,000 pounds of peanut butter, both physically and online through a monetary donation, to help feed North Texans facing hunger.
The twelve mayors are Baine Brooks of Allen, Steve Babick of Carrolton, Rachel Proctor of DeSoto, Henry Lessner of Fairview, David Billings of Fate, Jeff Cheney of Frisco, John Muns of Plano, Bob Dubey of Richardson, Christi Neal of Kemp, Vicki Sanson of Lavone, George Fuller of McKinney and Jeff Bickerstaff of Sachse.
The 12 met at the Andretti Indoor Karting and Games facility at Grandscape to film a promotional video to launch the peanut butter drive featuring the mayors in a friendly competition to see which city will win the race for collecting the most peanut butter.